This past week a new law passed that is called the “spreidingswet” or the spread law. It stipulates that refugees have to be spread across municipalities. Our main refugee location is often full resulting in people sleeping outside.

This decision was made by one of two chambers. People in it belong to a party but (should) vote independently and only judge a law on if it is useable/workable/legal.

The other chamber is chosen during our general elections, the last one being last November. Geert Wilder’s party became the largest party, but does not have an outright majority so he needs to form a coalition with other parties.

The VVD, formerly the biggest party, lost heavily but are now in talks for this new coalition. However, by being the largest before they have a lot of members in the other chamber. Those voted in favor of the Spreidingswet.

Geert Wilders is a right wing populist who wants to heavily reduce immigration so he does not like this law. He calls it the “Dwangwet” or “forced law”.

I ommitted a lot, didn’t bother to name both chambers and still ended up with an enitrely too long post.